1943 – Death of Yoshio Oki, Japanese Sino-japanese War and World War II fighter ace, killed in action over RusselI Islands (part of the Solomon Islands).

1955 – Thirty-four Argentine Naval Aviation and Air Force airplanes, consisting of 22 North American AT-6s, five Beechcraft AT-11s, a trio of Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats, and four Air Force Gloster Meteors, strafe and bomb Plaza de Mayo square in Buenos Aires. It is the first step in what becomes an eventually aborted coup d’état.

1984 – Frontier Airlines pilot Emily Warner and co-pilot Barbara Cook make history by directing the first all-female commercial airline crew on a flight from Denver to Lexington, Ky.